Originally Posted by
Hydro Junkie
Actually, it's closer to "apples to apples" than many want to believe. If you compare the amount of plane crashes in R/C to the number in GA, I think you would find there is a substantial gap and that hundreds of R/C planes crash each year for every GA plane that crashes. The reason no one looks at it in that regard is no one is killed when an R/C crashes and, since there are no records kept about the number of R/C crashes there are each year, we don't know how many people would have died had there been people in those R/C planes when they crashed. Now, let's take this one step further. Speed crashed 6 planes last year, Jester crashed 4 and I crashed one. Why they crashed isn't important, nor is the amount of flights each of us has taken over that year, but how would the FAA respond? Would they pull every one's license, Speed's license or no ones license? Would they require everyone to have a slight log to document our flight hours in, knowing some would falsify their book just to look good? It would be interesting to see how the FAA reacts to those kind of records, wouldn't it?
With all due respect my friend , In my opinion your kinda reaching here .
Since no one will ever die occupying an RC model airplane , and thankfully so far it's been very small numbers of people who have ever died by being hit by one , the MA / GA comparison will never be "apples to apples" , anymore than model railroad derailments will ever equal actual train derailments which have killed thousands over the years . Over the years bicycles have killed WAY more people than RC planes ever could , seen anyone forced to pass a knowledge and skills test to ride a bicycle lately ? If every crashed model aircraft , and I'm talkin air hogz sized and up , generated a report to the FAA , it'd likely take them till 3019 to actually in depth examine the thousands of reports sent in 2019
